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Joe Galloway
Author/Reporter
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Joseph L. Galloway is the senior military correspondent
for Knight Ridder Newspapers, working in their Washington Bureau,
and is also author of a weekly column on military and national security
affairs. He recently concluded a brief assignment as a special consultant
to Gen. Colin Powell at the State Department.
Galloway, a native of Refugio, Texas, spent 22
years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United
Press International, and nearly 20 years as a senior editor and
senior writer for U.S. News & World Report magazine.
His overseas postings include tours in Japan, Vietnam,
Indonesia, India, Singapore and three years as UPI bureau chief
in Moscow in the former Soviet Union. During the course of 15 years
of foreign postings Galloway served four tours as a war correspondent
in Vietnam and also covered the 1971 India-Pakistan War and half
a dozen other combat operations. In 1990-1991 Galloway covered Desert
Shield/Desert Storm, riding with the 24th Infantry Division (Mech)
in the assault into Iraq.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Galloway
“the finest combat correspondent of our generation---a soldier’s
reporter and a soldier’s friend.”
He is co-author, with Lt. Gen. (ret) Hal G. Moore,
of the national bestseller We Were Soldiers Once…and Young---which
has been made into a critically acclaimed movie, We Were Soldiers,
starring Mel Gibson. We Were Soldiers Once…and Young is presently
in print in four different editions which have sold more than 1.2
million copies. He also co-authored Triumph Without Victory: The
History of the Persian Gulf War for Times Books.
On May 1, 1998, Galloway was decorated with a Bronze
Star Medal with V for rescuing wounded soldiers under fire in the
Ia Drang Valley, in November 1965. His is the only medal of valor
the U.S. Army awarded to a civilian for actions during the Vietnam
War.
Galloway received the National Magazine Award in
1991 for a U.S. News cover article on the 25th anniversary of the
Ia Drang Battles, and the National News Media Award of the U.S.
Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1992 for coverage of the Gulf War. In
2000 he received the President’s
Award for the Arts of the Vietnam Veterans Association of America.
In 2001 he received the BG Robert L. Denig Award for Distinguished
Service presented by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents
Association.
He is a member of the advisory boards of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Fund, the nonprofit organization No Greater Love
founded to assist the victims of war, the 1st Cavalry Division Association
and the National Infantry Foundation.
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